Letters to the Editor Tuesday

I don’t know how many readers of the opinion page of the Savannah Morning News also read the weekly TIME magazine.

The March 17th issue had two full pages of balm to soothe and repair the ruptured egos of us Democrats for the last 12 years ... and strike fear into hearts of all Republicans.

I suspect most of us don’t even know the name of this “two-headed monster” that is running for the Senate in Georgia. It is Michelle Nunn, 47, a mother of two who lived in Washington, D.C. from the time she was 5 years old as the daughter of Sam Nunn the renowned senator from Georgia for 24 years. She has worked tirelessly for the non-profit foundation “points of light” inspired by President George H.W. Walker Bush who moved the headquarters to Atlanta to accommodate her as she served as CEO.

While campaigning, she ensures everyone has a bite of appetizers before speaking and remembers each name and saves all the business cards and children’s crayon drawings.

Quote Time magazine, “Even though she doesn’t seem to relish the game, as other politicians do, she knows how it is played.”

She is the light at the end of a very long tunnel, so all you Democrats ... carpe diem ... seize the day.

LARRY WAGGER

Savannah

Obama, Democrats subvert election process

A short time before our last presidential election, Congressional Democrats complained that the Republican picture voter ID laws would negatively affect minorities, low-income Americans, and the elderly.

So, to raise suspicion that Republicans might cheat at the polls, they requested election monitors from the United Nations — not quite the guarantors of free and fair elections.

While the Democrats in Congress railed against a Republican threat that never existed, President Obama had Attorney General Eric Holder sue the states that passed laws requiring photo IDs to ensure the possibility of voter fraud.

While Democrats were suggesting that only they were virtuous enough to preserve election purity, Obama’s IRS was targeting Tea parties and other conservative groups to deny or delay their applications for tax-exempt status, thus limiting their ability to raise election funds.

A month before the election, the Congressional Budget Office announced that there were fewer jobs gained, yet miraculously the unemployment rate dropped below the president’s goal of 7 percent.

When four Americans died in Benghazi, Obama and Hillary Clinton lied about an anti-Muslim video as the cause, distracting voters from the truth that Clinton left the embassy unprotected and the president neglected to defend American soil. The president lied to the American people for three years about Americans being able to keep their healthcare plan and doctors.

While the president and his Democrat administration presented themselves as the guardians of the polls, behind the scenes they were undermining the integrity of the election process.

DAVID J. DELNOSTRO, M.D.

Pooler

State overrides families under Obamacare

A provision in the Affordable Care Act will allow federal agents to come into our homes and decide if we are good or bad parents. This federal program goes under the title of the “Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting” program.

Health and Human Services can bring social workers or psychologists to our homes to decide if we are a “high-risk” family that is endangering the safety or health of our children.

A Health and Human Services press release by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that the HHS will conduct home visits with nurses and social workers to improve maternal and child health, child development, school readiness, economic self-sufficiency and child abuse prevention — and, once they begin visiting our homes, to determine if we meet the government’s definition as a family “at risk.”

If we refuse to participate in the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program, the next group that knocks could be the Child Protective Services announcing we have no choice but to face a court order transferring the custodial rights of our children to the state.

If we refuse to do everything, the government bureaucrats with their psychological advice and social workers tell us what to do. Can the government remove our children from our homes? What recourse do we have when the courts side with the government and their psychological or social worker “experts” that our children should be removed from our homes?

This is in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Is this the hope and change we have to look forward to? I say not. This is government out of control.

JIM DUNIGAN

Port Wentworth

How to reduce pain of food stamp cuts

According to the recent issue of the online site Daily Kos, food stamp benefits payments reductions that have recently become law will negatively impact 850,000 families throughout the nation.

There is still time, however, to delay and reduce the affect of these cuts.

Many people receiving heating assistance also currently qualify for increased food stamp assistance. This reduces the need of families to have to choose between having greater opportunity to feed themselves adequately or heating their homes.

Nevertheless, in a recent compromise, Congress has increased the minimum amount of heating assistance required for a home in order to qualify for an increase in food stamp benefits. This will soon force more needy families to make a dreaded choice between two essentials.

This dire change can be remedied by the states which face significant food stamp cuts, including Georgia, by increasing the amount of home heating assistance provided to low fixed-income families. Some of these families have members who are largely confined to their home for medical reasons.

In order to achieve this goal, many states need time to adjust to these increases in food stamp benefits requirements. This can be done most humanely if the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, will delay the implementation of the food stamp reductions until autumn when unusually cold weather could again appear in some states.

Reductions in food stamps in the Farm Bill can be disastrous to both needy families and individuals living alone.

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There is virtually nothing in David Delnostro's letter that is true. His anti-Obama rants is becoming an embarrassment when he writes half-truths and lies that were put out by right wing propagandists.

"A short time before our last presidential election, Congressional Democrats complained that the Republican picture voter ID laws would negatively affect minorities, low-income Americans, and the elderly.

So, to raise suspicion that Republicans might cheat at the polls, they requested election monitors from the United Nations — not quite the guarantors of free and fair elections.

While the Democrats in Congress railed against a Republican threat that never existed, President Obama had Attorney General Eric Holder sue the states that passed laws requiring photo IDs to ensure the possibility of voter fraud.

Republican poll watchers were challenging people at the polls doing nothing more than harassing voters which is a form of intimation that violates the law. Republicans were posting wrong times as well as telling people that certain poling places had been moved when they hadn't been which was a coordinated effort to subvert the right of a person to exercise their legal right to vote for the candidate of their choice. Many of these tactics were being done in predominately black districts. The Republican claim that there has been thousands of fraudulent voters was found itself to be fraudulent.http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/policy-brief-truth-about-voter-fraud

"While Democrats were suggesting that only they were virtuous enough to preserve election purity, Obama’s IRS was targeting Tea parties and other conservative groups to deny or delay their applications for tax-exempt status, thus limiting their ability to raise election funds."

The 'alleged' targeting of conservatives groups has been "committeed" to death by Republicans with absolutely no evidence that the IRS did nothing more than do their job. It has been found that the IRS checked as many progressive groups as they did conservative groups with only a progressive group, "Emerge America", being denied it's 501(c)(4) status.

Furthermore the head of the IRS office that was alleged in this targeting effort was a Republican.

"A month before the election, the Congressional Budget Office announced that there were fewer jobs gained, yet miraculously the unemployment rate dropped below the president’s goal of 7 percent."

The CBO is strictly nonpartisan and the unemployment rate is not determined by any president but by data.

"When four Americans died in Benghazi, Obama and Hillary Clinton lied about an anti-Muslim video as the cause, distracting voters from the truth that Clinton left the embassy unprotected and the president neglected to defend American soil".

This has been investigated dozens of times by Republicans and nothing has ever been found that implicates Hillary Clinton or the White House. Furthermore funding for more security for American embassies was defeated by a Republican majority in the House prior to this incident. Under President Obama 4 Americans were killed in one embassy attack but under President Bush there were 11 embassy attacks and 52 deaths; the equivalent of 13 Benghazis.

"The president lied to the American people for three years about Americans being able to keep their healthcare plan and doctors."

Some people lost their plans but many of these plans were with high deductibles and many were plans that didn't even have some basic coverage like hospitalizations. Meanwhile the Republicans consistently lied about having an "alternative" to the ACA when they have had no plan or the intention of creating any plan.

"While the president and his Democrat administration presented themselves as the guardians of the polls, behind the scenes they were undermining the integrity of the election process."

The integrity of the election process was not jeopardized by the president but by Republicans like Pennsylvania House Majority leader Mike Turzai. In a speech to the Republican State Committee he admitted the following, "Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.”

Dr. Delnostro should stick to something he knows something about unless he is truly totally ignorant about the corruption and lies in his own party and has bought into the far right wing fear and propaganda tactics.

"A provision in the Affordable Care Act will allow federal agents to come into our homes and decide if we are good or bad parents. This federal program goes under the title of the “Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting” program. "

No it doesn't. “Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting” program has been in existence for over 60 years and is for at risk children. It is covered under Title V of the Social Security Act. The ACA only strengthens the program that has helped families with children with crippling illnesses and other major health problems.

Mr. Dunigan, may I suggest you start getting your information from some other places besides right wing propaganda sources.

If Ms. Nunn has an ounce of the integrity that her father had - and I am certain that she does - she will show today's politicians, and yes, I mean Democrats and Republicans, what that is. So while you are seizing the day, pay attention because many politicians will learn to act honorably again.

that blue-Kool-Aid is flowing freely in the posting sections today. I really feel for them, but, can't quite reach them. The only thing they believe in doing is blindly following the zombie king and sucking up the blue-Kool-Aid.

Bill & Hillary got about $12 million for their to-be written memoirs.
Here's some help for them since their memories are getting old.

BILL CLINTONS MILITARY CAREER

Bill Clinton registers for the draft on September 08, 1964,
accepting all contractual conditions of registering for the draft.
Selective Service Number is 326 46 228.

Bill Clinton classified 2-S on November 17, 1964.

Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on March 20, 1968.

Bill Clinton ordered to report for induction on July 28, 1969.

Bill Clinton refuses to report and is not inducted into the military.

Bill Clinton reclassified 1-D after enlisting in the United States
Army Reserves on August 07, 1969, under authority
of COL. E. Holmes.

Clinton signs enlistment papers and takes oath of enlistment.

Bill Clinton fails to report to his duty station at
the University of Arkansas ROTC, September 1969.

Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on October 30, 1969,
as enlistment with Army Reserves is revoked by
Colonel E. Holmes and Clinton now AWOL and
subject to arrest under Public Law 90-40 (2) (a) -
registrant who has failed to report...
remain liable for induction.

Bill Clinton's birth date lottery number is 311,
drawn December 1, 1969, but anyone who has
already been ordered to report for induction is INELIGIBLE!

Bill Clinton runs for Congress (1974), while a fugitive
from justice under Public Law 90-40.

Bill Clinton runs for Arkansas Attorney General
(1976), while a fugitive from justice.

Bill Clinton receives pardon on January 21, 1977,
from President Carter .

Bill Clinton becomes the FIRST PARDONED FEDERAL FELON
ever to serve as President of the United States.

All these facts come from Freedom of Information requests,
public laws, and various books that have been published,
and have not been refuted by Clinton .

After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, President Clinton
promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia ,which killed five U.S.
military personnel,
Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia ,
which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel,
Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa ,
which killed 224 and injured 5,000,
Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole,
which killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors,
Clinton promised that those responsible be hunted down and punished.

Maybe if Clinton had kept those promises, an estimated 3,000 people
in New York and Washington , DC , who are now dead
would be alive today.

THINK ABOUT IT!
It is a strange turn of events.
Hillary gets $8 Million for her forthcoming memoir.
Bill gets about $12 Million for his memoir yet to be written.
This from two people who spent 8 years being unable to recall
anything about past events while under oath.

Sincerely,
Cdr. Hamilton McWhorter USN (ret)

PS.
Please forward this to as many people as you can!
We don't want this woman to even THINK of
running for President!

If Clinton had still been obligated to report for induction, his draft board could have got him any time they wanted: they certainly knew where to find him, yet no one ordered him to report to an induction center, no federal agents arrested him for draft evasion, and no MPs came and hauled him away for being AWOL, because he hadn't broken any laws, civil or military. Likewise, President Carter's executive order of 21 January 1977, which provided pardons and amnesty for those convicted or suspected of violating the Military Selective Service Act between 1964 and 1973 did not apply to Clinton because he committed no such violation.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/felon.asp#7hZPVHdQGhapIAep.99

Cdr. Hamilton McWhorter USN (ret) is a real person but that e-mail attributed to him is a lie and he publicly denounced it as being such.

Although what he did may not have been against the law, Clinton's broken promises and contradictory statements about his efforts to avoid the draft were prime examples of the kind of self-serving doublespeak that later earned him the sobriquet "Slick Willie." As Maraniss concluded in his Clinton biography, First in His Class:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/felon.asp#67epIVx7QpiQ4JW2.99

Late so I’ll try to make it short. Michelle Nunn would make a great Senator for the state of Georgia, sadly Georgia does not go for the best candidate.

Feel better Doc, ever had to stand in line for hours and hours to vote?

Jimmy or should I call you Rip Van Winkle? Guess you have never heard of Family and Children Services?

Fred yes that is a hard choice starve or freeze. Sure there is at least one around here that can fix their problem, just tell them to go get more education and pull their self up by their boot straps and get a job. That trickle is trickling down everywhere, get some.

Tybeenian this is where most of your post came from (http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/felon.asp). Since you want to make an issue out of Clinton staying out of the service (Vietnam), let’s take a look at some well known GOP war hawks that never went to war: Romney, Trump, Cheney , Limbaugh and Nugent. Bush W. went ahead of 23 other men in line for the Texas Air National Guard and back in those days the guard, helps to have a Daddy that is the Director of the CIA.